This release is a major milestone in the “Ultimate” series of distrubutions or distros for short; starting from this version forward upgrading from 1.4 to 1.5 etc. will be a click of the mouse away and without downloading 2GB every time. Full releases will still be availible for download. This version you will find to be much faster & more responsive; due to the many enhancements to the kernel and being based on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

I have added a script I wrote comes up on boot that allows Flash, video drivers etc. to be installed & plays music as it downloads them.

As always any software that requires a license agreement is not included, Java, Flash and Acrobat reader, Google Earth. Please freat not for the first time included in the release is my custom repo hosted on a seperate server which contains all the software and much more. Unlike Ubuntu Ultimate 1.3, to make life easier for users this distro will install drivers, Flash, and Acrobat reader for you apon booting from the live DVD. After installed there is an upgrade icon on the desktop that will install Google Earth etc.

To answer the question… What is Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.4? It is Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with the following software pre-added, many wireless issues addressed, and an upgrade script, allowing additional software:

133 Upgrades, already done for you

Additional themes, theme engines & screensavers

Busybox

Network security tools

Manrip & Lemonrip – DVD ripping software

Yamipod – Ipod software

New theme / splash screen / wallpaper

New sound theme

VCD Gear debian style

Subversion & build tools

Wireless Internet integration

Bluetooth integration

PPP integration

Networking tools

35 Additional fonts

Repository driven Compiz Fusion

Integrated Custom repository support

IPod support

Beagle

Gramps – Genealogy software (thanks poweruser2600)

Kapote – Instant Messenger

Integrated codecs (the good the bad & the ugly)

Mplayer, VLC, Songbird & Amarok players with mp3 support

Mencoder, K9Copy, DeVeDE, DVD Shrink – dvd copying software.

Automatix (in case you want additional software)

GFTP – FTP Client

KVIrc – IRC Client

Additional Themes, icons, cursors & logins

Samba

NFS

EasyTag – MP3 Tag Editor

GDesklets

Inkscape – 2D vector drawing

Screem – HTML Editor

Gambas – Programing environment

QEMU & Kqemu Accelerator – Emulation

Screem – HTML Editor

Avidemux – Avi (divx /xvid) editor

GDesklets – Eyecandy & info

NTFS read / write support

Lamp – web server (Apache2, mysql, PHP5)

phpmyadmin

Azureus – P2P software

MS core Font’s and extra fonts

Wine – Windows emulation (always newest version – through repo)

Alien – Allows installation of foriegn packages (RPM, suse etc)

Gobby Team programing software

Ksnapshot – Screen capture software

Google Picasa – Graphic editing software

Frostwire Pro – P2P software

Kolourpaint – Graphic editing software

Qcad – Autocad wannabe

Archive Suite – virtually any archive can be handled.

Ajunta IDE – Programing environment

Bluefish – HTML Editor

Glade – Interface designer

Gtranslator

Bit Tornado – P2P Software

Kino – Flick editor

Audacity – Sound editor

Debian Menu (pdmenu)

Dvdrip – Dvd ripping software

Democracy Player

Listen Media Manager

Steamripper

Ilinux (banshee)

Gnucash – Financial software

Aria – Download manager

Build Essentials and make utility’s

Quanta Plus and extras – HTML Editor

Graveman – burning software

New Grub splash screen and animated boot up screen

Bum – Boot-up manager

Sum – Startup manager

Istanbul – Live screen capture (used to capture current screencast)

Ghex – Hex editor

Gourmet – Recipe manager

Isomaster – CD / DVD ISO editor

GPHPEdit – PHP Editor

Aria – Download manager

Democracy – Movie streamer

ClamAV – Anti-virus software

Listen – Media manager

DVD|RIP – Dvd ripping software

Lifrea – RSS feed reader

Brasero – Disc burning tool

X-Chat – IRC Client

QDVDAuthor – DVD authoring software

SMP Support (dual core CPUS) / works with single core as well

New GDM theme

Capture card support – TVTime / ATI-All-in-wonder

GKRealm – Realtime hardware monitor

MGM – Moaning Goat Meter

Newer Amarok then can be obtained from normal repos

Hardinfo – System information

GTKPod – Ipod Sync software

HTop – Process viewer

Sysinfo – System information

IPodder – Ipod sync software

XSensors – Hardware sensor software

Addition networking and wireless tools

Gpixpod – Photo sync software for Ipod

IPodslave – an iPod IO slave

By Next Week all our Team Members would be with the DVD and any body that wants it on their systm can get in touch with either of